LISBON, Portugal Portugal paid official homage Tuesday to Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese diplomat who during World War II helped save thousands of people from Nazi persecution, by placing a tomb with his name in the country’s National Pantheon.
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Aristides de Sousa Mendes disobeyed orders when he was a consul in Bordeaux, France; in 1940, he gave visas to many people who feared that the Nazis would search for them.